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If you read only one article during this holiday season, let it be Adam Bosworth’s ICSOC04 talk

Posted : December 28, 2004 at 5:08 pm [America/Los_Angeles]

As another year comes to an end, we all want to chill out and “..recharge our batteries”. Well, good for us. And well deserved (I think )

However, if you’re in the mood of reading only one article during this break, I would strongly encourage you to read Adam Bosworth’s ICSOC (International Conference on Service Oriented Computing) 2004 talk. So, who is Adam Bosworth you ask? Well, he is was VP Engineering of BEA Systems and currently works for Google (see comments). And while you may think you’d rather NOT read anything “too” geeky right now, this one actually is a real nice read and is not that geeky at all. As he himself says at the start of his talk:

I’m sandwiched by smarter and more august speakers. Don Ferguson of IBM builds edifices of such sophistication and elaboration as to daunt the designers of the extraordinary archways of the Alhambra. Tim Berners Lee created the web as we know it today and preaches a sort of religion about the semantic web from his eerie at MIT that is totally over my head. These are very smart gentlemen. One would be foolish to try to appear smart when speaking between them. Accordingly, I’m going to take the opposite tack. I’m going to talk about the virtues of KISS which I’ll conveniently describe as keeping it simple and sloppy and its effect on computing on the internet.

http://www.adambosworth.net/archives/000031.html

Enjoy!

- Anand

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